{"id":8461,"date":"2026-02-03T10:05:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=8461"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:05:06","slug":"convert-compress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/convert-compress\/","title":{"rendered":"Convert &amp; Compress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My go-to local app image optimizer has long been <a href=\"https:\/\/imageoptim.com\/mac\">ImageOptim<\/a>. It&#8217;s Mac-only (and free), but they <a href=\"https:\/\/imageoptim.com\/versions.html\">suggest alternatives<\/a> for other platforms. I reach for ImageOptim usually when I want to optimize <em>a whole bunch<\/em> of images in a batch. For one-offs, you can&#8217;t do much better than <a href=\"https:\/\/squoosh.app\/\">Squoosh<\/a>, a great progressive web app (PWA). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I haven&#8217;t seen much innovation in this space in a long time, but recently just saw <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/convert-compress-images\/id6752861983\">Convert &amp; Compress<\/a> and it&#8217;s pretty good! It&#8217;s got a nice UI for looking at before\/after results like Squoosh has, but also does batch processing. The one review left so far mentions SVG support, which I agree would be nice. ImageOptim does that, as does the PWA <a href=\"https:\/\/jakearchibald.github.io\/svgomg\/\">SVGOMG<\/a>. Convert &amp; Compress is free-for-now and looks reasonably priced once it&#8217;s not anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t like the UI or features, it feels like this is the kind of app that would be good vibe coding practice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My go-to local app image optimizer has long been ImageOptim. It&#8217;s Mac-only (and free), but they suggest alternatives for other platforms. I reach for ImageOptim usually when I want to optimize a whole bunch of images in a batch. For one-offs, you can&#8217;t do much better than Squoosh, a great progressive web app (PWA). I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[133,70,446],"class_list":["post-8461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-images","tag-performance","tag-webp"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/626x392bb.webp?fit=626%2C391&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8468,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8461\/revisions\/8468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}